[Enterprise]

God bless Texas.

[ChefKeith]

Funny how when the property is "yours" that if you don't do this or that right the govt takes it away...

[KoRn]

/Applaud!


This may delay Mexico from taking away part of Texas in the short term.

[TXBSAFH]

ping

[Flyer]

Ping!

[traviskicks]

Backlash continues from

Kelo...



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[demkicker]

Do you know what the vote tally on the bill was? Just wondering.... This has to be one of the few really great moments of Perry's governorship.

[JeffAtlanta]

The republican leadership in Georgia has assured us that we don't need any further protections as emminent domain will never be abused.

What a great bunch of guys.

[DilJective]

The next step is get rid of the rest of the socialist laws that have taken away property rights- inability to rent to anyone a landowner wants; taxes based on property values to the point of evicting owners unable to pay; zoning laws; community restrictions; environmental laws; rent control; etc. Sure, you can own property as long as you follow all the rules... Property rights have been eroding for decades and should have been stopped a long time ago. Politicians have hoodwinked property owners by making them think that only the slumlords and wealthy would ever be affected by laws that take away rights. When slumlords were told they could not exclude anyone they wanted, no one thought that was a bad idea and then came the rent control. Then it was applied to everyone with a spare apartment. No big deal, because not everyone has property to rent out. Then the Environmental laws came and only affected a few people with property in wetland areas and goofy cute animals. Not a big deal until wetlands started covering entire regions and stopped families from building homes for themselves. Finally, the final solution to redistribution tactics- eminent domain abuse. Now that normal citizens are being affected by this, there is finally outrage. I hope the outrage doesn't end with eminent domain. We need to take back all property rights. Every bit of it. Until property owners have complete control over what they own, there will never be complete freedom. That's my two cents.

[rambo316]

Here in the state of NY, there is no hope for private land owners. I work for the state of NY and I see what is going on first hand. What you have here, is Commie land grabbing groups which are supposed to be private, joining together and buying up private land. Then they turn around and then sell it back to the state for a loss and this is all done for the birds and trees. And our RINO gov. allows this to happen.

[cowtowney]

So does this mean that the Dallas Cowboys will not be taking people's homes and businesses in Arlington for their new stadium?

[SevenDaysInMay]

The Kelo SCOTUS justices voted for fascism: socialist government taking, through misuse of police powers of the State, from disfavored citizens to reward favored citizens. Because justices ruled to unlawfully amend our ratified Constitution again, all public discourse should be over these blackrobed oligarchs' impeachment and removal from office for "bad behavior". They are but oulaws attacking our ratified Constitution under color of law. Anything less is aiding and abetting domestic enemies of our Constitution.

[Rocky]

As long as the courts reserve the right to overturn laws, I don't find great comfort in this. But at least the legislative and executive branches in Texas have displayed respect for property rights and the U.S. Constitution.

[middie]

Federalism as it was inteded to be. This example is contrary to the Supreme Court telling Florida how to recount its votes.